Update: 5 ml from the bottle!

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Update to my post earlier today: I was at the NICU today when Justice's speech therapist was there to try him on a bottle again. Every other time they've tried him he's been on the high flow cannula. But they put him on the low flow for the feeding today. He took 5 ml from a slow flow nipple without any bradys, desats or gagging. Then he fell asleep. It's a start! The speech therapist was happy with him. I think a big factor in his feeding issues was the high flow cannula forcing his trachea open and not allowing him to swallow properly.

KellyMichelle

Yay!  Once they get the hang of the bottle it really goes fast.  It just takes some babies a while to catch on.

mhop

Awww, I remember when we were excited about C taking 5 mLs.  It's an exciting step! 

JustMarried2005

That's great!  Keep us updated!

Mrs Manners

Yay! That's a huge step. You'll be surprised how quickly it'll go from here. Give it two more weeks and he'll be a champion bottle eater.

baby_garcia

That is great! My DD had a lot of desats and gagging problems feeding on the bottle when we first brought her home. It became a nightmare to feed her because she would usually choke during her feedings and sometimes turn blue. I would cringe just at the thought of her feeding time coming up. We tried slow flows and went to a speech therapist. It took about a month for them to finally figure out that she was not able to protect her airway. They did something called a video swallow where they fed her barium and then could see in an xray how she was swallowing. They saw that with regular milk she aspirated, meaning it was going into her airway. They tried other consistencies until they found that she did OK with honey-like consistency. She's been great ever since. She eats very well and no more choking. We just add something called Hydra-aid to her bottles and it makes it thicker, it also help with her reflux. I just wanted to mention this because it's not something I would ever have thought about and it seemed to take so long to get to the right diagnosis. I don't know if that could be what might be happening with your son, but it might be worth asking.